The most important math for your life! The Math of Comfort Foods!

This is Living!

Finding the perfect comfort food for the malady. The essence of feminity is which of your wiles is needed to heal the sickness in front of you. Family teaches you about the reality of oneness and how your participation can bring strength to the hardest circumstance. There is little more comforting that you can do than putting on a bit of makeup and bringing a fresh batch of cookies to the party.

Healthy food is for when all is well. When the rug comes out from under everybody a pie is in order! I love the premise of this book "Pie Squared". I want it as a provocative tool to continue the ministry of comfort that is the motherhood ministry. All of her daughters, meaning you, better catch it too.

unedited thoughts

She shall be saved through the childbearing...

If they continue?

Is every promise in the book mine? No promise in the book is mine if I am not attached to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that this is the deception of our era

It tries to resonate salvation apart from the covenant of church membership. Spurious faith as expressed by unattached humans to covenant of marriage and of covenant all agreements far and wide reaching. There is little or no protection from the elements of this world system of deceptions in our own strength if we are walking in our awn sins. we all too often are walking in our sins and the degradation follows us from generation to generation. The "Devolution of our race in the full light of the sun of God's entire revelation given to us and yet we would much rather walk in the light of our own expressions than pour over what is already revealed. we are not tricking our children and they are indeed calling us into question on al of our inconsistencies with regard to our faith. Why are you acting as an unattached Christian. why is your attachment greater to the things of the world than the things of Christ.

Which regard to women, He shall rule over her. With regard to Her desire, Her desire is to rule over Men and this is far and wide reaching. God promises to subdue such unprincipled desires. You want to be the ruler of the world Woman! God says You will want to take over and do what you want all over the place. It is a Psychosis of Femininity and God has promises regarding this. He will allow it for a moment and then thwart it to the utmost. How much better to accept your position and usefulness in Scripture and do what God intends you to do? why don't we do this. We want our own way and we reap the negative consequences of such actions. God is not tricked by our wrong impulses. God is designing how we will be it back into place as He intended. God has a purpose for our creation and the more we kick against the pricks, so to speak the more we are reaping the sad unnecessary consequences of our own actions. God wants to be known by us. He has spoken, clearly in Scripture about what we are a how we should be acting, but we would rather create our own path of regulating principles. we are looking for our own way...

"All we like sheep..."

Turning to our own way has led us to back and forth on the pendulum of disrespectful actions against God and coming back to him and then going our own way.

Where Is God in this?

sometimes we lose his purpose altogether, in the full light of the sunshine of His completed revelation, I repeat. That is a greater sin than the OT saints. we must look at our culpability as being greater than theirs because they were talking in the darkness. No light

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?

...and yet we constantly make up idols of our own cultural persuasions of Christianity and Call it Godliness. we remain at the crossroads of our faith. we must labor to find the unity of the faith in the bond of peace, or we may be guilty of the worst deception of all of time."Will He? Find faith on the earth? Was the question in Scripture? Will He see us clinging to Him or clinging to our father's perceptions of what Christianity meant for them, including their idolatries? We must decide whether or not we will trust Christ's Word on the subject or our own!

It Came, It Came, It Came! the SNOW

Some time in the night, while I was fast asleep, wondering if my baby girl was stuck somewhere in the cotton fields of Murphreesboro, with no help in sight, the snow came to visit us.

Is a wedding worth all of the mothers worrying their wits about 3 giddy girls on the road in the blizzard warning roads of North Carolina? I know we were all concerned that, even though you said you didn't drink at the reception, you were indeed inebriated with the delight of your dear sister coming into her full womanhood of wifing. She is no longer a girlfriend. Even in today's liberated world there is something delightful when we celebrate the coming together of two people under the protection of covenant acceptance of each other. I think even the heavens were delighting in their union. We promise to accept each other in the full light of God's eye. We promise to give each other ourselves and tell everybody that we belong to each other.

It is still enough to make us all drunk with delight that 2 people can come to that agreement to try it for the rest of their lives.

I turned over for the third time and tapped your father to ask if Evie had called and he said yes. I was relieved and went to the window to see if the snow had come. It had!

Hoooooorah!

Two huge delights in 24 hours. My darling daughter was involved in one of the most beautiful things in the world, witnessing 2 people take their vows and NC getting snow for Christmas, but mostly for my birthday. I couldn't ask for a better birthday present!

my new Chocolate yogurt recipe

2 cups plain unflavored yogurt

4 tbsp cocoa

1pkg of knox 1/2 cup sugar

1 cup boiling water

1/2 tsp vanilla

Mix cocoa and boiling water until completely dissolved.

sprinkle knox over the cold yogurt in a large bowl. wait until cocoa mixture is warm, not too hot. pour the cocoa mixture over the yogurt, whisking vigorously. pour into pudding bowls and refrigerate, covered. It is delicious!

Happy Chanukka!

Today is the first day of Hannuka and I don’t celebrate every year, but this year, because my baby is in DC I have an extra moment to make latkes . I have added paprika to the potatoes and garlic and onions and flour mixture to represent the WWII thoughts and the loss of our President Bush. I hope that diplomacy and sectionalism of our nation will be taught to defer, without “compromise to the indivisibles”. Identifying and representing the indivisibles, as we grow in unity is the American way.

I am a Christian and yet the history of Hannuka is celebrated in our hearts in a unique way as the redeemed of the Lord, by the blood of Jesus Christ. I celebrate the fact that our Jewish brethren have a vail over their eyes that God has promised to remove, one day. I celebrate the power of the Gospel that has brought me into unity with Christ and marked the beginning of my unification with the Saints on High. I am growing in my faith day after day, as I saturate my soul in the Word of God and I enjoy the sunshine of God’s smile on my life and faith. I am daily coming to Him for forgiveness and help in this difficult world. I am grateful for the grace to stand in my faith on this day. As I anticipate the celebration of Jesus’ birth on Christmas, I look forward to the unity of the faith in a more perfected country and world. Only Jesus can make that happen!

The Amazing Providence of Women like Marian Wright Edelman

I am so glad you shared your meeting her. I would have given you a mountain of questions to ask her, had I known you were going to meet her. It is better that you met her before I told you about her. Women of her stature are women who empower your every self sacrificial effort. They are not the women that you talk about. They are part of an army of women who have sacrificed some or all of their personal accolades to the guidance of our youth. Her prayers and devotion to a generation of All About "ME" women is notable and lit up by the darkness of selfishness that surrounds it.

Who is the center of the universe? is the catechism that these women have lived out before us and the answer thunders out "WE ARE!" There is no question that no one must stand in their way. No one was saying the things that Edelman was saying. Who will bear the burdens of the children to the throne of grace? Who will wipe the tears and change the diapers? Those questions were left for the children to figure out for themselves. Much of life in the Feminist Actualization Years was about self and self and selfishness. Only the self actualized will survive this overthrow. I am not surprised at the hashtags Metoo that have come to crest and crash upon us as a flood. Not minimizing the victimization of women for time and history, but somebody has to stand for the rights of people who can't speak for themselves. Marian stood for the silent children who have no computer to tweet out the metoo's. She stood for the chaos that ensued from people not caring to lend a hand to the next generation but charges them for entering the world.

As it were, there is a toll at mother's womb edge that says this is the start of your payment for using this vehicle into the world. You don't owe me anything for using my body to come in and make your mark on the world. Life is hard enough without mothers everywhere reminding you that they went through suffering to get you here. Honor is due to the mothers and fathers, but not an eternal debt!

...remind me of that when I get on my rants and get me an Edelman book, to help me to put a muzzle in my complaining...

This Hymn was saying what I was trying to say, yesterday!

If you from sin are longing to be free, Look to the Lamb of God; He, to redeem you, died on Calvary, Look to the Lamb of God.

Refrain: Look to the Lamb of God, Look to the Lamb of God, For He alone is able to save you, Look to the Lamb of God.

When Satan tempts, and doubts and fears assail, Look to the Lamb of God; You in His strength shall over all prevail, Look to the Lamb of God.

Are you a-weary, does the way seem long? Look to the Lamb of God; His love will cheer and fill your heart with song, Look to the Lamb of God.

Fear not when shadows on your pathway fall, Look to the Lamb of God; In joy or sorrow Christ is all in all, Look to the Lamb of God.

Use your hawk eyes for the glory of God. I think all of my children have hawk eyes. You guys can see things that others cannot. It is discernment, it is a spiritual sense, it is a human intuition that comes from generations of mothers in our family who were not dissuaded from using their mother's intuition and teaching others to do the same. Your's has seemed sharpened since your college graduation, somehow. Hawk eye is your college crest and I believe that you have increased your insight into the things around you. I hope you use it wisely and feel confident enough to say what you see. Don't be a "timid Theresa" seek up and see your vision and sense of need incorporated into the surroundings you have made yourself a part of. Don't be a wallflower and wait until the year is nearly over to engage with your peers and your elders and the patients. Everyday, ask God to give you an unforgettable gift of sharing to keep for your life's journey. "Leave it all on the court!" as we tennis players say and you will find that you leave the court with more than you came with.

missing you!